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Nowhere do we find a character so clearly self-revealed.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere

Aim had been taken, in the course of it, at some living originals, disguised sufficiently from recognition to enable him to make his thrust more sure; but there was one exception self-revealed.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

And then he stood at ease, self-revealed in his own sinister identity—a police officer in plain clothes.

From The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie

The two commonplace books I have recently published, written by Jefferson during his student days and consulted by him throughout his life, could rightly be called "Jefferson self-revealed."

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

For us there was genuine relief in turning from the miasma of brooding doom which overhung the Wastrel to the spiced fragrance of this self-revealed personality.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville